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Leyline of the Void
ensures opponents can't take advantage of the cards you're placing in their graveyard, as well as deals with cards that would shuffle the graveyard into the library (such as the original Eldrazi Titans).

Thousand-Year Elixir
is not great here, since you need to untap 4 of your creatures to make the most of this mill strategy. Also, you are not currently running any creatures that need the mini-Haste Elixir provides--you're almost never going to want to activate the first ability of
Persistent Petitioners
, and they do not need haste to utilize the second as it lacks a symbol in the activation cost.

2 months ago

Rabid_Wombat - Modern Mill is a burn deck, you're just burning their library, rather than their life total. Let's look at how a typical mill game plays out, and you will see how, despite not attacking life, it is an aggro playstyle, rather than control:

Persistent Petitioners
is worse than every single card on that list. There is no room for four copies, let alone more. As such, it will make no difference in mill's Modern viability.

But wait, you say, what about mill as a control deck?

Control's goal is to attack valuable resources, leaving you in a better position for victory. The library, which mill attacks, is not a valuable resource--until actualized, those are just hidden cards with no intrinsic value. There is little synergy between these two strategies, leaving mill-control a vastly inferior option to mill-burn. 60 "life" is a lot more than 20, making it far more likely that you run out of control resources before your opponent runs out of cards.

Even in such a deck, you would still not want
Persistent Petitioners
, as it would detract from your absolutely necessary control cards and high-value mill cards.

With regards to
Ensnaring Bridge
, Darkshadow327 accurately surmised my point. The only benefit Petitioners provide to mill is a mid-sized blocker.
Ensnaring Bridge
is far better against aggressive creature-based decks, making it superior to Petitioners for defence.

Just like in a burn deck, you do not want to mainboard
Ensnaring Bridge
--it's only really useful against hyper aggressive decks that risk overwhelming you before you can finish milling. Against slower decks, those three mana would be better spent going for a faster kill.

The reason mill doesn't shine in Modern is because, as much as it pains me to say this, it is a bad archetype. It's burn, but you're attacking a 60-life resource, rather than a 20-life one. Further, your "burn" spells can only attack an opponent, whereas
Lightning Bolt
can take out an enemy in a pinch. With regards to your point about mitigation of burn vs. mitigation of mill, many decks do not run lifegain, and a good burn deck

Darkshadow327 - one correction to your post, you can mill for 12 the turn you've fielded four copies of Petitioners. As there is no symbol in the mill-12 ability, summoning sickness does not apply.

2 months ago

This looks solid, though not running Visions of Beyond or Mind Funeral in a mill deck seems a little odd. Instead you have maindecked extraction effects and have Mission Briefing to add more copies of Archive Trap or Glimpse the Unthinkable at a guess?

Visions of Beyond occurrence in decks from the last year

Modern:

All decks: 0.07%

Commander / EDH:

All decks: 0.01%

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